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- noun Plural form of
hagbut .
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Examples
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Stimulated by that black traitor, Campo-Basso, he deemed it better to run forward with his whole force upon a place, which, though I could soon have battered it about their German ears, was yet too strong to be carried by swords, lances, and hagbuts.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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High Street, a scuffle arose, a new "Clear the Causeway," though the defenders of order kept within the walls of the Tolbooth, and thence shot at the rioters, who returned their fire with hagbuts and stones -- from three in the afternoon till eight o'clock in the evening,
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862
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(‘in Gallowfarren’), killed with shots of pistols and hagbuts in 1608.
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committed "with cross-bows, little short hand-guns, and little hagbuts," prohibits the possession of "any hand-gun other than such as shall be in the stock and gun of the length of one whole yard, or any hagbut or demihake other than such as shall be in the stock and gun of the length of three quarters of one yard."
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Gallowfarren '), killed with shots of pistols and hagbuts in 1608.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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